Word: reassertions
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...with some--though not all--of the other major roles, the difficulties of the play reassert themselves. Bryan Falk's Claudius appears unnecessarily stiff. Certainly the King should be regal, but that need not restrict the actor who portrays him to the single tone level and rate of delivery. Somewhat the same is true of Robert Jordan, in the part of Laertes. He tends to speak too fast to let his lines be readily understood. Lisa Rosenfarb, the Queen, happily avoids these mistakes. She speaks poetry perhaps better than anybody else in the cast. But in the other aspects...
...Guard still maintains its influence despite the President's view, it is sure to reassert itself through Mr. Richard Nixon should the President pass on. A New Nixon is supposed to have emerged. But the Vice-President's ability to change his principles at any time makes him even more frightening than any disagreeable, but principled conservative. Nixon in the White House would seem subject to every political breeze, no matter how ill its direction...
...Citadel of Learning is neither particularly original nor notably well argued. Two of the three essays are from speeches given last year when the German ambassador was apparently more concerned with tanks than textbooks. They attempt in a rather general way to reassert the virtues of independent research and rigorous instruction. The third essay is written especially for the book, but it cannot be accused of originality, since it consists almost entirely of rehabilitated Conant programs, most of which have been better stated elsewhere...
France, which grudgingly left Syria and Lebanon in 1946, has misgivings about British ascendancy in the Middle East, deplores METO, and would like to reassert its old influence in its lost territories.* Therefore, France works to help the other half of the Arab world: three weeks ago it resumed arms shipments to Egypt. Egypt reciprocated by ceasing its own fiery broadcasts to the Moslems of French North Africa (while persisting in stirring up hatred against the British by broadcasts beamed at the Sudan, Kenya and Uganda...
President Eisenhower journeyed to Philadelphia last week on a mission: to reassert his belief that the Big Four conference at Geneva was merely a first step toward peace, offering little more than a friendlier international climate in which diplomats can begin work on the actual problems of the cold war. It was the President's intent to warn the U.S. and its allies against premature relaxation of the posture of strength that made the "Spirit of Geneva" possible in the first place...